Hi Pavel,
Thanks for the clarifications. I certainly appreciate that cross platform protocols constrain what can be done… Thanks for pointing out IBinaryRawReader. Regarding random access into arrays, is this something that is on the books for a future version? Thanks, Raymond. *From:* Pavel Tupitsyn [mailto:ptupit...@apache.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, August 1, 2017 11:31 PM *To:* user@ignite.apache.org *Subject:* Re: Accessing array elements within items cached in Ignite without deserialising the entire item Hi Raymond, First of all, BinaryObject is a cross-platform concept, it exists in C#, C++, Java. >From C# point of view there are some inconsistencies (like nullable Guid, or non-generic collections), but these things are dictated by the existing protocol, so we can't change them. In most cases you can just use WriteObject<>/ReadObject<> methods to avoid these inconsistencies. 1. You can implement array pooling yourself using IBinaryRawReader methods. For example, byte array is written like rawWriter.WriteByte(arr.Length); for (...) rawWriter.WriteByte(arr[i]); I think an extension method would be easy to write. 2. See above, use WriteObject<>/ReadObject<> to avoid dealing with nullables 3. Random array access is not possible with current API. Thanks, Pavel On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Raymond Wilson <raymond_wil...@trimble.com> wrote: Hi, I’ve been looking at IBinarizable and IBinarySerializer with regards to controlling object serialization (using the Ignite.Net client). A couple of questions: 1. Some of the APIs in IBinarizable allow for a factory methods to control construction of collection and dictionary elements, but not for array elements (which could allow for performance optimization through array pooling). 2. GUID and DateTime elements are nullable (and there is no non-nullable variant for these types). Apart from being inconsistent with all the other types supported in the API, nullability in .Net carries a performance penalty. Curious as to why these types are defined like this? 3. I see it is possible to read arrays of elements. But I see no way to read a particular element within an array without deserialising the entire array. Is it possible to do something like byte ReadByte(string fieldname, uint index); ? Thanks, Raymond.
